How Jensen Works

This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Jensen Huang—and nothing else. I spent over 40 hours reading (and rereading) this book on Jensen and Nvidia written by Tae Kim https://amzn.to/3Wel4FK I then spent several days editing down 30 pages of notes from the book. I deleted everything that was not How Jensen Works. List of ideas: 1. Professor Jensen 2. The Whiteboard 3. Complacency Kills 4. Insist on a Flat Organization 5. Public Criticism 6. Tortured Into Greatness 7. Speed of Light 8. Extreme In All Things 9. Top 5 Emails 10. Direct, Blunt Communication 11. LUA 12. The Mission is the Boss and Pilot-in-Command 13. Strategy is Action 14. Ship The Whole Cow 15. Go To School On Everybody 16. Create The Market 17. Choke You With Gold 18. Highest Priority First 19. Swarm Your Greatest Opportunity Episode sponsors: ⁠ Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ramp.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.vanta.com/founders⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Collateral⁠⁠ transforms your complex ideas into compelling narratives. Collateral crafts institutional grade marketing collateral for private equity, private credit, real estate, venture capital, family offices, hedge funds, oil & gas companies, and all kinds of corporations. Storytelling is one of the highest forms of leverage and you should invest heavily in it. You can do that by going to ⁠⁠https://collateral.com Follow my new podcast David Senra on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCy2FPslt0LLPsIV0iukvHpQ

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Oct 19, 202555mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: October 19, 2025
Duration: 55m
Channel: Founders Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Jensen Huang—and nothing else. I spent over 40 hours reading (and rereading) this book on Jensen and Nvidia written by Tae Kim https://amzn.to/3Wel4FK I then spent several days editing down 30 pages of notes from the book. I deleted everything that was not How Jensen Works. List of ideas:
Professor Jensen
The Whiteboard
Complacency Kills
Insist on a Flat Organization
Public Criticism
Tortured Into Greatness
Speed of Light
Extreme In All Things
Top 5 Emails
Direct, Blunt Communication
LUA
The Mission is the Boss and Pilot-in-Command
Strategy is Action
Ship The Whole Cow
Go To School On Everybody
Create The Market
Choke You With Gold
Highest Priority First
Swarm Your Greatest Opportunity
Episode sponsors: ⁠ Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ramp.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.vanta.com/founders⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Collateral⁠⁠ transforms your complex ideas into compelling narratives. Collateral crafts institutional grade marketing collateral for private equity, private credit, real estate, venture capital, family offices, hedge funds, oil & gas companies, and all kinds of corporations. Storytelling is one of the highest forms of leverage and you should invest heavily in it. You can do that by going to ⁠⁠https://collateral.com Follow my new podcast David Senra on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCy2FPslt0LLPsIV0iukvHpQ

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David Senra
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Host of the Founders Podcast, covering biographies and company histories of famous entrepreneurs.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Founders Podcast, featuring David Senra, How Jensen Works explores nineteen Management Ideas Behind How Jensen Huang Runs NVIDIA Senra rereads The NVIDIA Way and strips out the biography to focus only on how Jensen manages, teaching constantly through whiteboards and a flat organization with sixty direct reports and no one-on-ones.

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